TY - BOOK AU - Badescu,Gabriel AU - Uslaner,Eric M. ED - T&F eBooks. TI - Social capital and the transition to democracy T2 - Routledge studies of societies in transition SN - 9780203428092 PY - 2003/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Democratization KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Europe, Central KW - Former Soviet republics KW - Social capital (Sociology) KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction / Gabriel Badescu and Eric M. Uslaner -- 2. Trust networks and democratic transition : Yugoslavia in the mid-1980s / Hajdeja Iglic -- 3. Communist societies, the velvet revolution, and weak ties : the case of East Germany / Henk Flap and Beate Völker -- 4. Social networks in Russian politics / Nicolas Hayoz and Victor Sergeyev -- 5. Social networks, civil society, and the prospects for consolidating Russia's democratic transition / James L. Gibson -- 6. Trust and civic engagement in East and West / Eric M. Uslaner -- 7. Social capital and support for democracy in the post-communist states / Kathleen M. Dowley and Brian D. Silver -- 8. Social trust and democratization in the post-communist societies / Gabriel Badescu -- 9. Civic engagement in a post-communist state / Jeffery J. Mondak and Adam F. Gearing -- 10. Why post-communist citizens do not join voluntary organizations? / Marc Morjé Howard -- 11. Social capital in Poland / Jerzy Bartkowski -- 12. What does social capital add to democratic values? / Richard Rose and Craig Weller -- 13. Legacies and conflicts : the challenges to social capital in the democratic transition / Eric M. Uslaner and Gabriel Badescu; Also available in print edition; Electronic reproduction; [London, Eng.; Taylor and Francis; 2010]; PDF file created from digital scan of print book UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203428092 ER -